It's part 3 and Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is back, an experimental dream inhibiting medication has allowed her to live her life, she is now interning at a hospital psych ward housing the last of the "Elm Street children". After something of a tangent in part 2 Freddy is back on message, seeking to murder all the children of the men and women who went outside the law to kill the child murder all those years ago.
Kristen Parker (Patrica Arquette) is in the psych ward, she is one of Freddy's targets, only she has a special ability going back to childhood, which enables her to pull other people into her dreams. Nancy and Kristen hope to assemble the surviving kids into a group of 'Dream Warriors' (in execution this is not quite as silly as it sounds) to take on Kruger. They are assisted on the outside by Nancy's policeman father (the great John Saxon), a mysterious nun (Nan Martin) and 'Not Bill Maher' aka Dr. Neil Gordon (Craig Wesson), who despite having a romantic thing going with Nancy which feels inappropriate given their age difference and the power imbalance as he's kind of her boss, we still like anyway.
We get an origin story on Freddy and learn that the way to finally vanquish him is to bury his remains in hallowed ground. This is a pretty satisfying movie, a natural end point to a surprisingly decent trilogy. Yet the profits are good so the studio is going to insist on running this thing into the ground, making another 5 of these before finally rebooting the franchise. So 'Nightmare's' nightmare awaits me as I keep working through these films, though I give number 3 a respetacle **1/2.
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